The story about the Tudor school life describes the life and routines of a typical boy from the high social standing in the Tudor era. The main character was born the same year Columbus discovered America. He devotedly loved his mother and missed her when traveling. Yet, he enjoyed the privilege of education, and his memories of school life give a detailed picture of how the school looked half a millennium ago. A reader will learn about the daily routines, meals, education, and typical children's games.

First available in 1908, this is an account of the school days of Juan Luis Vives (1492 to 1540) who was a Spanish scholar of the Renaissance and was a contemporary of Erasmus and Greek scholar Bude (Budaeus).

The use of school life as a closed narrative environment is well documented, and modern examples such as Malory Towers and Harry Potter show the genre's continued appeal. While there have been several histories of the school story, especially in children's literature, almost all of them take as their starting point Tom Brown's Schooldays. Although occasionally acknowledged in passing, there has never been a complete study of earlier school stories, or of other fictional portrayals of school life before the middle of the eighteenth century. In Before Tom Brown, Robert Kirkpatrick traces the roots of the school story back to 2500BC, when school life was a feature of Sumerian, Egyptian and Graeco-Roman texts written as teaching aids for children. From Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to Shakesperean comedies, he explores for the first time the use of school dialogues in the classroom, in print and on stage, and presents new evidence that the first school novel appeared in 1607. Finally, he examines the role of the school story in the broader development of the novel as the genre became established through the eighteenth century. Readers will be rewarded with a whole new perspective on the history of children's literature.

This collection of documentary material illustrates the main themes of educational history from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the nineteenth century. In covering this earlier history, Mr Sylvester's book adds an important perspective to the study of educational development. Full weight is given to the curricula and discipline of the various educational institutions over this period, as well as to the legal and constitutional frameword in which they were founded. This book was first published in 1970.

These collections of documentary material illustrate the main themes of educational history from the early middle ages to the late twentieth century. It contains extensive extracts from every major educational document of this period including royal and parliamentary commissions. Each document is supported by short commentaries and an annotated bibliography. Whilst the main theme is the creation of a genuine national education system, the volumes also address the relations between church and state in education, teacher training, the progressive development from elementary to primary and secondary education for all, and the growth of technical education from a private to a public activity.